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Iconic Wineries of the Atlantic Coast

Roger Morris
Features
14 min read
The soil and the climate have always been here.  But it took a few centuries to find the right grapes to plant, to develop the needed modern techniques in the vineyards and wineries, and to see winegrowers emerge with the knowledge, stamina, resources and vision to create iconic, high-quality wines

Tangled Vines weaves a tangled web

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
3 min read
In her new book, Tangled Vines, journalist Frances Dinkelspiel does something remarkable. She turns a 10-year-old crime into a spellbinder, The crime in question is the Oct. 12, 2005, fire that ripped through the Wines Central warehouse in the San Francisco Bay area, destroying 4.5 million bottles of premium wine

My Month of Malbec

W. Blake Gray
Features
4 min read
Malbec is one of my least favorite varieties. However, I spent most of December in Argentina and Antarctica, and you know what that means: My Month of Malbec. It's daunting to spend a month in a country where you dislike what everyone else drinks, and in Argentina, Malbec is more

A Bosnian wine adventure

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
4 min read
How do you rate your wine drinking preference? Conservative, tried-and-trusted, varied or adventurous? I've always thought of myself as pretty adventurous, until I discovered “Vins Insolites” (unusual wines), a new book by the French journalist Pierrick Bourgault. Bourgault's impressive opus catalogues 20 years of travel and research, to bring together

The Cortese Enigma

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Many years ago, when I was just starting to become enamored of wine, my wife came home from a trip through Italy – I had not yet been – with the name in her notebook of a lovely white wine she had tasted a couple of times while in Milan.